[Savannah-hackers] Re: libc6 2.2.5-11.5 upgrade

[Mathieu Roy]

Paul Fisher <address@hidden> said:

> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:29:28PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> > 
> > Good. I forgot that NGROUPS applied also to the glibc (a pain to
> > compile!).
> 
> Have you all considered the possibility of changing the savannah
> codebase from using Unix groups to POSIX ACLs?  ACLs are fully
> supported these days in 2.4 w/ ext3.

I must admit that I'm not at all familiar with ACL. In fact, I was
thinking that it was only really interesting when dealing with a
Network not 100% GNU/Linux. And as I never deal with this kind of
network, I never paid any attention to ACLs.

And are you experienced with it? Did you heard positive comments about
it?

What imply exactly using ACL? Adding a mount option is not enough I
guess. Is it really more complicated than Unix groups or *just*
different? 

As I plan since a long time and I will soon (I hope, I'm on vacation
the next week, but I've lot of work to do at the University) rewrite
sv_cvs in two scripts (sv_users and sv_groups, surely), it may be done
directly. 
Currently sv_cvs update the system according to the database. I think
we should made this operations separately from groups and user, to get
two scripts easily modifiable and understandable. While sv_cvs is very
efficient, it's very hard to adapt it for another installation,
outside savannah.gnu.org







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